Three sisters from Aquileia named Agape (“uh-GAH-pay”), Chionia, and Irene were martyred in this city after not eating sacrificial offerings. This city took its patron saint from Sirmium and built the Church of Saint Demetrius to honor him. An edict issued in this city is often called Cunctos populos. This city’s populace lynched an administrator named Butheric after he arrested a popular charioteer. The dialects spoken in this city’s countryside formed the basis for the Glagolitic script created by two natives of this city, the missionaries Cyril and Methodius. In 380, Theodosius I issued an edict in this city that made Nicene Christianity the Roman Empire’s state religion. A massacre of 7,000 people in this city led Milan’s bishop, Ambrose, to force Theodosius I to commit public penance. For 10 points, name this Byzantine “second city” found in the Greek region of Macedonia. ■END■
ANSWER: Thessalonica [or Thessaloniki; or Saloniki; or Salonica; accept Massacre of Thessalonica; accept Edict of Thessalonica]
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